Крайне оскорбительное ругательство в адрес гея.
A very offensive slur for a gay man.
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Его отстранили за то, что он выкрикнул это слово болельщику. — He was suspended for shouting that word at a fan.
Она несла вязанку сухого хвороста. — She carried a faggot of dry wood.
Слово «пидор» есть в любом списке запрещённых. — The word faggot is on every moderation blacklist.
Свяжи ветки в вязанку хвороста, прежде чем их сжигать. — Bind the branches into a faggot before you burn them.
Если назовёшь кого-то пидором, тебя выгонят из команды. — Calling anyone a faggot gets you removed from the team.
Вязанка хвороста быстро прогорает в открытой печи. — A faggot burns quickly in an open stove.
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Download the app for free Russian vocabulary testThe Russian counterpart of the English f-slur, and just as offensive — but it behaves differently. Russian speakers use it far more loosely, often about a person of any orientation, as a general term of abuse closer to English bastard. That looseness does not make it acceptable: the homophobic origin is fully alive in it.
The root produces a family at different intensities — пидор, пидар, пидорас — and all of them come out of prison slang, which is part of why the word lands as hard as it does. The neutral Russian word is гей, borrowed from English; голубой, literally light blue, is the old euphemism and now reads as dated.
гей gay
Borrowed from English in the nineties and the only neutral option. This is the word to use.
голубой gay — dated euphemism
Literally light blue. Not aggressive, but it dates the speaker and can read as condescending.
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